" Smith, she groused, "doesn't know what he's talking about.
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"It's too much princess and little kid stuff," one groused.
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He wanted, colleagues groused, to be seen making a speech.
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"This, in my opinion, shows a small mentality," he groused.
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"Gentlemen don't get very well treated up here," he groused.
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Several television executives privately groused that those numbers were meaningless.
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As negotiations progressed, some delegates groused that American leadership was lacking.
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"Even the building is terrible," the president reportedly groused in private.
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Some fellow Democrats groused that she had sold out their liberal principles.
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"I really don't want to be their ashy third wheel," I groused.
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Yankees fans rejoiced and Yankees haters groused, but both sides were wrong.
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"The driver picked them up an hour late and got lost," Junior groused.
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" Bill groused, "This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I've ever seen.
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Nick groused he was reined in and the network tried to homogenize him.
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"All you care about is the show!" he groused when his idea was dismissed.
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He groused about how the women often drink too much and cause a scene.
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Several participants groused about a lack of information and delays in getting their coins.
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"It's just a 2000-week funding bill," the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, groused.
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Other people groused that none of these women had any business at the C.M.A.s.
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"He's doing stuff kids do in Wiffle ball games," Rangers reliever Sam Dyson groused.
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Why, he groused, was she talking about saving the whales, instead of saving NAFTA?
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Unfortunately for Trump, the bills he's groused about haven't even had a simple majority.
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Like many companies under the thumb of Big Tech, Sonos groused privately for years.
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When Fear the Walking Dead began, he was easily the character viewers groused about most.
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Mr. Trump groused about the Russia investigation with his intelligence chiefs on multiple other occasions.
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"I'm sick of the whole bunch," Richard Nixon once groused to his national security adviser.
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He groused about the coverage of Ms. Omar's warm reception upon her return from Washington.
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He groused about the coverage of Ms. Omar's warm reception upon her return from Washington.
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Passengers groused online of being being stuck on the tarmac at airports around the world. 3.
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" Trump was pleased but groused that the award was no longer called "Man of the Year.
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Europe is "not helping us," he groused, apparently referring to the war on the Islamic State.
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He groused later to Sean Hannity that he hadn't been asked a single question about Triggered.
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Last month, the president groused that border agents and military personnel couldn't "get tough" without consequences.
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Democrats, he groused in an overnight tweet, are working to blame a global contagion on him.
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And privately, the president has groused that he should not have signed the order undoing separations.
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"We lost more blood from this stupid maneuver than from the entire robotic operation," he groused.
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"We have enough politics in our lives right now, can we just escape a little?" groused another.
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Competitors have groused about the company overpaying for programming and thus bidding up the cost for everyone.
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And Jay groused Kanye never brought Blue Ivy to his house so all the kids could play.
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It should, but fans on each side groused throughout the season that their team was being overlooked.
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"He's this young guy and he's allergic to hard work," groused the Republican strategist I mentioned before.
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They groused that players had corn rows and diamond studs in their ears, and wore baggy clothes.
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Throughout the weekend, rival television executives groused privately that the viewership number Netflix released was virtually meaningless.
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"Overpriced Lego ride for McLaren fanboys" one multi-hypercar-owning friend groused to me in an Instagram message.
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"I grab a booster for my kid and it's covered in gum and melted gummy candy," groused another.
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Nixon groused that the law did not do enough to cut down on the busing of minority children.
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"He needs a haircut," groused one man who saw Fleetwood shortly after he arrived at the first tee.
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In Poland, some opposition leaders groused about those supporters who had been bused into Warsaw from the countryside.
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While many agents groused about the changes, Mueller was implacable, withstanding the withering criticism, and holding the line.
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Many along the border have groused about funding for water treatment projects not going to the American side.
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The 11th-hour chatter about ending birthright citizenship by executive order, they groused, wasn't winning over any cautious moderates.
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" Winters relented, but groused that Williams ("the little bastard") would make "a good deal of money out of me.
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"I just don't understand why they are still letting so many people just come in like that," he groused.
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"Why don't they, for a change, tell us how many jumbo jets landed safely at Heathrow Airport," he groused.
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In August he groused that Google and Facebook were pushing negative stories about him in search and social feeds.
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"I looked like I could give the viewer some contagious infection through the photograph," his friend Renata Adler groused.
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Some residents, like Mr. Titov, groused that the wealth was being wasted on prestige projects rather than helping ordinary people.
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"I look like a witch," groused the Italian performance artist Vanessa Beecroft, her hair pulled back into a fiery bun.
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The President has publicly and privately groused that he thinks the investigation has hampered his diplomatic efforts on the world stage.
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In response, progressives have groused that some blue-collar unions are willing to sell their souls for a few thousand jobs.
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He groused about windmills, proclaimed his love of cowboy hats and indulged in an extended rant against energy-saving light bulbs.
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It would be welcomed by U.S. President Donald Trump, who has frequently groused that the Fed is raining on his economic parade.
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Rather, they merely groused about having to stay at work on a Thursday and threw barbs at the guy keeping them there.
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"No color, no representational figures, no fun at all," Mr. Scharf groused of the classroom ethos at the School of Visual Arts.
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This paragraph in particular rings true to me: Like many companies under the thumb of Big Tech, Sonos groused privately for years.
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While some celebs have groused at the idea of "laughing with" an ex-face of the Trump administration -- Michael's way more forgiving.
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McDonald's dropped its popular "Dollar Menu" in 2013 after franchisees groused that selling items like the McDouble cheeseburger for $1 cut into profits.
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We got Rev Al leaving NBC in NYC Friday, when he groused the Dallas killer set the anit-police brutality movement back significantly.
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McDonald's dropped its popular "Dollar Menu" in 53 after franchisees groused that selling items like a double cheeseburger for $1 cut into profits.
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Critics groused that these new films had strayed from the innate optimism and humanitarian idealism of Gene Roddenberry's original vision for the series.
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Mr. Trump also privately groused about having to postpone departure plans for his 16-day trip to Mar-a-Lago, his Florida resort.
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In private conversations, Mr. Trump has groused that Mr. Wray has not swiftly removed people whom he perceives as loyal to Mr. Comey.
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Almost uniformly before Mr. Trump, American presidents publicly promoted the role of journalism in a democracy, even if they groused over tough coverage.
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America's trade deficit with China, "the largest deficit in the history of our world", is "out of control", Donald Trump groused on March 233nd.
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"Winnie likes to be in the limelight for all the wrong reasons," a black letter-writer to Johannesburg's main newspaper groused two years ago.
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" A reviewer for The Guardian groused that "even in the smallest doses, these lazy riffs and lame parodies do more to annoy than entertain.
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" And Trump once groused about not getting recognition for pushing to repeal part of the Affordable Care Act: "We got no credit, but that's okay.
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"There is no demand and no private investment," groused Rahul Bajaj, chairman of Bajaj Auto, a motorcycle-maker, at its annual meeting in late July.
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Of course, most users just saw it as a necessary evil, even as they groused about having to pay more money during periods of peak demand.
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Pedro Almodóvar, a film director and president of the jury, groused that he could not imagine a winner that could be seen only on small screens.
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Rose's lawyer also groused about the fact 15 of the first 27 potential jurors were Hispanic -- which was concerning for Rose because his accuser is Hispanic.
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The TV outfit's former CEO, Bob Wright, groused in his book that GE, hobbled by the financial crisis, had given away the broadcaster for a song.
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For years, she had imagined that during card play, the women let down their guards, spilled secrets, groused about their spouses and worried about their children.
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He also groused over the optics of the rally, telling a person close to him that the crowd seemed flat and that some chairs were empty.
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" • "Nissan employees had groused that Nissan profits were propping up Renault, and many feared Mr. Ghosn was preparing a Renault takeover of its bigger Japanese partner.
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" Even Sondland, Giuliani's collaborator on the Ukraine caper, privately groused to other State Department officials: "Every time Rudy gets involved he goes and fucks everything up.
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As the president has soured on Tillerson — "He's weak on everything," Trump has groused to advisers — he has grown increasingly fond of both Cotton and Pompeo.
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Privately, other ministers groused that Kerry was too involved, that he gave up leverage by immersing himself in the nitty-gritty issues commonly left to the staff.
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Some Republicans have groused about him in private, others scolded or lamented him in public remarks; most dodged or demurred when confronted with the controversy du jour.
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I just want to be president," she groused at one point, later describing the party platform as "a to-do list of things we're not gonna do.
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He groused one day in November 1967 that someone should go to Vietnam to give the soldiers a pat on the back and buy them a beer.
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Mr. Trump has groused about the cost of keeping 28,000 American troops on the Korean Peninsula and has reportedly questioned whether they should be there at all.
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One groused that it was a gift for the banking lobby and regulators vexed by the rise of an efficient market for credit that they did not control.
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The TV outfit's former chief executive officer, Bob Wright, groused in his book that G.E., hobbled by the financial crisis, had given away the broadcaster for a song.
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When I lived in Rome, I often groused about how many restaurants had almost identical menus and how inviolable the rules and rhythm of Italian meals could be.
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A source who has interacted with Brown tells TMZ the Compton Mayor has privately groused that Dash is "running for notoriety" and has no relationship with the district.
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Susan Brownmiller, 270, a feminist writer, reminisced about the early days; the cartoonist Jules Feiffer, 270, joined by video; many groused that the paper's archives were not online.
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"I should be embarrassed to have either of you as my senator," Larry Gray, a doctor in Portsmouth, groused during a Rotary Club meeting where Ms. Hassan spoke.
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Business leaders groused that the president had been bad for business, endangering $218 billion in local trade with Mexico while scaring away businesses with tales of immigrant mayhem.
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The left has long groused that Wall Street and corporate America were given too much clout in President Obama's White House, particularly in the early years of the administration.
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Paul George broke his leg in the off-season, the Pacers missed the playoffs in 2015, and West sat around and frowned and groused to anyone who would listen.
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Hey, I wouldn't have groused so much about Facebook Watch some 3,000 words ago if I didn't know I was going to say some nice things about it too!
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Some DOJ lawyers have groused that the Mueller team should have taken a less risky course by focusing the indictment against the Russian nationals, without the companies and entities.
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An influential art critic, Christopher Allen of The Australian, the national newspaper, groused not long ago that there was too much Aboriginal art, some of it of poor quality.
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While the president groused about the difficulty of the questions posed to him by American journalists, John R. Bolton, the national security adviser, mostly stayed away from Mr. Trump.
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Some Republicans groused that Obama should have waited for Congress to make its wishes known on immigration, rather than protecting people Congress hadn't decided to give legal status to.
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In October 2017, he was reported to have groused about "inmates running the prison" if N.F.L. owners allowed players to continue to sit or kneel during the national anthem.
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I did at first; how easy it is to appeal to resilience at a comfortable distance, I groused, as if the obligation to endure weren't itself a brutal burden.
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As some FBI bystanders groused — these "blue-flamers" are put into positions long enough for a cup of coffee; just enough time to touch the base and move up.
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President Donald Trump has long groused, without concrete proof, that social networks bury conservative content -- and even invited Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to the White House to complain about it.
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The addition of Australian language features to Google's software could carry with it a sense of vindication for local users, who have long groused about its inability to understand them.
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She had the classy feminine lead thing down, although some directors groused that her off-center beauty and all those proficient accents in her early roles limited her sex appeal.
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Sinema has billed herself as an independent voice while courting the moderates she needs to win, even as some left-wing progressives have groused that she has been too cautious.
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We were all East Coasters who groused at a 30-minute ride in a car, and everything there was 100 miles away, but we got to see some interesting things.
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Loud cheers and a smattering of jeers greeted Mr. Trump at that game, but fans of all political persuasions groused over the long security lines associated with a presidential trip.
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Over the next 24 hours, as Mr. Christie gloated in television interviews and on the stump, Mr. Rubio angrily groused to advisers about news coverage saying he had lost his momentum.
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Rather than address the disunity among Republican members of the House, the president groused in a brief appearance in the Oval Office that Democrats had refused to vote for his plan.
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We're also told by someone who was at the show ... 21 groused about the opening act -- a local rapper -- and asked the DJ to cut him off but the DJ refused.
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The appeals court "used shameful sophistry and sleight of hand to effectively deny millions of Californians their constitutional right to bear firearms in public for self-defence", the interest group groused.
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" Rick Santorum, a former Republican presidential candidate, warned of the "Republican Party potentially being torn up," and Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska groused about what would "actually make America great again.
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During that same meeting, Mr. Tillerson groused to White House officials about Mr. Trump's tweets, describing them as counterproductive to his efforts at diplomacy, according to a person with direct knowledge.
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By late morning, few businesses in St. Petersburg and its barrier islands had put plywood or hurricane shutters on their windows, and some locals groused about the change in the forecast.
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Trump groused about the price tag — the ship will cost north of $750 million to build — but he hailed the new ship on a phone call to service members last December.
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But they have groused at the Corporate Average Fuel Economy requirement, which they say isn't feasible and which Ford's CEO told Trump would cost a million jobs, he said back in January.
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He also groused at prosecutors moving both cases to New York's Supreme Court because it allows them to start the case all over, and delay Cuba from getting his day in court.
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As he and his team drafted his address in recent days, he has groused about the text, complaining that it was too gentle on Democrats, according to people briefed on the matter.
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It reminds me of those baseball grumps who watched Ken Griffey Jr. — one of the great joyous players of recent baseball vintage — and groused that he wore his baseball cap backward in practice.
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Small-town, rural voters have groused that Mr. Rubio has ignored them, and his narrow travel schedule has earned him a sarcastic nickname, "Mayor of Ankeny," the location of his Iowa campaign headquarters.
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As he and his team have drafted his address in recent days, he has groused about the text, complaining that it is too gentle on Democrats, according to people briefed on the matter.
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In the past, Donald Trump groused about how funding bills failed to provide money for his much-hyped wall along the southern border, but he signed them anyway, including one in late September.
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They cooked Sunday suppers, sang as they hand-washed the dishes, groused and gossiped and generally found contentment in the simplest of lives, one necessarily small because of poverty and lack of opportunity.
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The deteriorating condition of the State House, parts of which were built when George Washington was president, has been apparent for years, and it was something that was groused about and worked around.
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Its story, based on the real-life palace intrigue involving Queen Anne and her female consorts, gleefully skewers the stuffy conventions of its genre, provoking some who have groused about its many anachronisms.
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Bondi Wash, a Sydney company that makes natural baby lotions, soaps and dog rinses, groused that it was denied a trademark in the United States because of a similar name held by Abercrombie & Fitch.
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The Republican resistance to Mr. Trump's emergency declaration was much more pronounced in the Senate than in the House, where a few Republicans — in the minority but more closely aligned to Mr. Trump — groused.
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"Throughout the Soviet period they said it was 5,000 years old, and then suddenly they changed it," groused Alex Abdulfez, a young tour guide at the ancient fortress called Naryn-Kala, which dominates the town.
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The group has struggled with diversity — a 2015 internal report showed staffers accused it of being a "white men's club" — while grassroots activists have groused that HRC caters foremost to its centrist, well-heeled chums.
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Opponents and reporters have enjoyed a field day digging up old tweets and remarks by Republicans, who back in 2009 and 2010 groused at length over the Obamacare process for an alleged lack of transparency.
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The strategy succeeded brilliantly, beyond what Kennedy and his advisors imagined, not to mention some of the commentariat, which groused about "all that money" being spent on space "stunts" while social needs pressed for attention.
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Previously, he'd been a director of Luoyang tourism, and at the dinner in Yan's honor he groused about the difficulties of being caught between the expectations of locals and the indifference of officials in Beijing.
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That was the same month that House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer groused that other new Democratic representatives were being ignored by the media in favor of Ocasio-Cortez and her close allies in the House.
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" He casually relates anecdotes like one about the time he took his mother, visiting from Michigan, to a "swanky" New York restaurant and she groused at the bill, "which I guess I expected her to pay.
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Hu Xijin, the outspoken editor of the nationalistic Global Times news outlet, groused on Twitter that the United States was only giving up some restrictions on Huawei that it imposed a month and a half ago.
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"I am mystified that nothing has been done in response to my months-old request that we include the citizenship question," he groused in a May 2017 email to an aide tapped out on his iPhone.
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We got the KISS frontman Tuesday at LAX and he groused about music boycotts ... in particular, bands that are refusing to play in Israel in the wake of Trump's move to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
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Its high-powered lawyers, who groused that the state prosecutors' legal theory was a "radical departure" from long-standing case law, vowed to appeal against the ruling, all the way up to the Supreme Court if necessary.
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In recent days, Mr. Trump has groused to several friends that he is not looking forward to leaving his new White House cocoon for high-profile, high-pressure meetings with dozens of world leaders in unfamiliar settings.
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Corey Lewandowski, Mr. Trump's 2016 campaign manager until he fired him, repeatedly groused to friends that he was forced to absorb all of the criticism for the campaign's practice of confining reporters at rallies in small pens.
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At first she was just reposting news from other accounts: the tainted-formula scandal that killed three babies, the college-admissions administrator found to be taking cash bribes—the kinds of things we all knew and groused about.
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In Moscow, Vladimir Yakovchuk, a man in his 50s in a red jacket and walking down the street with his wife, groused that Russian athletes were being singled out for punishment while doping was clearly an international problem.
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Trump had long groused about Mulvaney, who angered the president last autumn by saying at a White House news conference that Trump had sought to persuade Ukraine to investigate Democratic rival Joe Biden by withholding U.S. aid to Ukraine.
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Earlier this evening on MSNBC, Trump's campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, groused that the lack of establishment support was hurting the campaign: "We have former presidents not voting for us, we have former nominees not voting us — and that's gotta hurt."
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The president, who has privately groused that the news media has been much more critical toward him than toward Mr. McCain, ultimately believes the will of the world bends to him, not the other way around, one former adviser said.
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Several VCs groused that dozens of firms now descend like hawks on the unwitting but fortunate target startup, angling for a term sheet and willing to give up valuation and preferences left and right for any chance at the cap table.
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Conservatives groused that they lost a key advocate inside the White House and worried aloud that Mr. Trump would shift left, while cheers erupted on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange when headlines about Mr. Bannon's ouster appeared.
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" Even as Mr. Trump assailed Ms. Pelosi and Republican lawmakers groused about how little input they had in the 124-page package, the speaker and Mr. Mnuchin were privately discussing what a spokesman described on Twitter as "language recommendations from the Administration.
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One senior White House official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity so as not to describe interactions with the president, said that Mr. Trump was aware of — and had groused about — the criticism that he was too close to Mr. Putin.
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When all nine acts of it opened on Broadway in 13 — running nearly six hours, including a break for dinner — the New York Times critic Brooks Atkinson groused about its "jejune plot and incompetent characters," saying it could have been half the length.
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In a face-to-face Oval Office meeting, the President groused to McGahn about Mueller's appointment made on McGahn's watch as White House counsel, and the cloud the investigation has continued to cast over the presidency, the people familiar with the conversation said.
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" Even as Mr. Trump assailed Ms. Pelosi and Republican lawmakers groused about how little input they had in the 124-page package, the speaker and Mr. Mnuchin were privately discussing what a spokesman described on Twitter as "language recommendations from the Administration.
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On Sunday night, the GOP nominee, who has spent months laying into the establishment, pleaded with his supports to keep the House and Senate in Republican hands even as he groused that he would like the party to do more to boost his campaign.
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But some groused that his plans — like a new $500 billion business hub "for the dreamers of the world," built from scratch and fueled entirely by clean energy — were ill-conceived and grandiose, and instead of investing at home they quietly moved their assets abroad.
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Cesar came into the picture near the end of last year during a visit to the mansion ... where the Metropoulos bros groused to Cesar about the bird's aggressive tendencies ... like charging people and just making it difficult for caretakers to tend to the exotic bird.
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All the while, he groused to aides and advisers that cable TV networks had largely stopped airing his campaign rallies live as they did in 2016, two sources familiar with his comments said, to the point that aides contemplated ways to garner media interest in Trump's rallies.
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"There is literally nothing that sounds more horrific than getting dolled up, putting on heels, and celebrating 226 with a group of strangers in a crowded nightclub," food blogger Frosted Petticoat groused in a sponsored post, next to photos of plastic gold utensils and iceberg lettuce salads.
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CNN previously reported that some Justice Department lawyers have groused that the Mueller team could have avoided this fight with Concord, and the potential for negative court decisions, but ignoring the Russian companies and focusing their indictments on the Russian citizens who ran the troll farm.
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Trump has groused about Germany's trade deficit with the US, but Europe is one of the largest trading partners with the US. European nations have tried to use the idea of a trade agreement with the EU to pressure Trump into a climate change reduction agreement.
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"I don't think Chuck Schumer is very interested in my opinion since he's just launched a website in Maine and just committed an additional $700,000 in additional negative advertising from the Majority Forward PAC," Collins groused about Democrats' drive to deny her a fifth term in November.
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While critics groused that the penalty didn't do enough to change Facebook's fundamental business model, the company and the FTC touted the record-breaking fine and the mandated structural reforms that went with it as a major milestone — a chance for the company to turn over a new leaf.
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On Twitter and at a rally, Mr. Trump groused at Fox for giving airtime at all to Mr. Buttigieg and other potential opponents — saying out loud the quiet part of American media and politics, that the channel's mission is to root, root, root for the GOP home team.
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"I guess the only way you do this is to jump in and speak twice as long as you should," Biden groused, as he delivered yet another debate performance in which he was obsessed with the clock, the rules and whether he should follow them when others didn't.
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On Washington WASHINGTON — All week long, Senate Democrats had quietly groused that Senator John McCain made a stirring return to the Senate after a brain cancer diagnosis, that he preached the virtues of bipartisanship — and that he then backed a Republican-only push to replace the Affordable Care Act.
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Britain's calls for all members to meet their military spending target of 2% of GDP, may allow her government to become a point of liaison between states in the Western alliance and the new president, who has frequently groused that US allies have not done enough to pay for their own defense.
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The original trajectory required automakers to average roughly 36 miles per gallon across their offerings by 2025, avoiding 570 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2030, but some carmakers groused that meeting that target would be too expensive or require them to make cars that no one wants to buy.
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" Privately, Mr. Trump's impulses had led him to ignore political protocols and his own Republican allies, like Speaker Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin and Mr. McConnell, who had groused about the president in recent days that the Senate would consider an immigration bill "as soon as we figure out what he is for.
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Disappointed Democrats groused that you obviously had to be rich to compete in the 2020 race — because she was gone, while two billionaires remained — and pointed to the potentially all-white, un-diverse lineup at the party's next debate as proof that the qualifying criteria put too much of a premium on fund-raising.
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When USA's alien invasion drama Colony wrapped its first season in the spring of 2016, I groused about how the show seemed ready to jettison its deep portrayal of the psychological cost of collaborating with an occupying force, in favor of pursuing a feel-good story about the human resistance overthrowing the alien occupiers.
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A day after Donald Trump Jr.'s contentious appearance on The View — where he was faced by Meghan McCain and, he later groused to Sean Hannity, the hosts didn't even ask him about his new book — the president's oldest son appeared at a Florida bookstore for an event with hundreds of fans and a few protestors.
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Executives at other entertainment companies — whose shows succeed or fail based largely on ratings measured by the research firm Nielsen — have groused that the Netflix numbers did not correspond to any traditional statistics, that they were inflated and that they highlighted successes while ignoring the scores of series and movies that failed to attract significant audiences.
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The schemes revealed in those four indictments were startling, and showed just how deeply a drug culture had taken hold in a sport whose participants claim to love their horses, how complicit horse owners were in pursuit of big purses, and how cowed the trainers were even as they groused about their crooked competitors but were afraid to hold them accountable.
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Schiff and others have groused that Republicans have blocked them from interviewing dozens of witnesses, scheduled crucial interviews out of state and at inconvenient times, and have diverted attention and resources to the question of potential anti-Trump bias at the FBI — something they call a cynical attempt to undermine officials who launched the investigation of the Trump campaign's ties to Russia.
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"If I could tell Trump one thing, it would probably be to include his VA Secretary in his 'major meetings' about the VA, regardless of what technology outcome is planned," one CEO groused, alluding to Trump's awkward exchange last week — where the president announced he'd be holding an impromptu summit, and VA Secretary David Shulkin immediately said he wasn't attending.
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Evert had naturally expected Navratilova to show for a much-anticipated final, but the world's top-ranked player faltered in the critical moments against the high school student from the Baltimore suburb of Lutherville, Md. "I'm sick of tennis," Navratilova groused afterward, bowing to the frustration of losing to Shriver, who was playing in only her second Grand Slam event after winning two rounds at Wimbledon this summer.
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N.L." It's an institution that has yielded such enduring moments as when, in 1988, Jon Lovitz (in the guise of Michael Dukakis) contemplated Dana Carvey (as the elder George Bush) and groused, "I can't believe I'm losing to this guy"; in 1992, when Mr. Carvey simultaneously played Mr. Bush and his challenger Ross Perot (the latter performance had been recorded ahead of time); and in 2000, when Will Ferrell (as George W. Bush) summarized the best argument for his candidacy in a single word, "strategery.
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It is a harrowing, almost Dickensian story: When he was 5, his mother walked out on him and his brother (she was tired of being beaten by their violent father), and he grew up a "frozen child," used and humiliated by his scam-artist dad — a charming but treacherous man who "saw no paradox between being on the Wanted list for fraud and sporting a gray topper in the Owners' enclosure at Ascot," a man who obliviously gambled away his son's school tuition in Monte Carlo, did jail time around the world (Hong Kong, Singapore, Jakarta, Zurich) and later groused over his famous son's failure to give him a cut of his book royalties.
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